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"Do not expect the code to be stable under any modifications, but you can try if you want I guess. Also there are barely any comments sorry. I am in Electrical Engineering and I like writing shitty code to piss off my Computer Science friends."

I love this.

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The few comments that are in there are kinda funny too:

> #fucking awful global variable that is is changed by the confirm() function of the pieces

> #math shit

> #i don't know what im doing

That and "run the latest .py file because I can't be bothered to actually use version control" made me laugh

This makes no sense to me. I mean, it's already on GitHub, which is a version control system. So he's doing more work by committing each version as a separate file, rather than making modifications in place?

He probably bothered to learn "git add" "git commit -am" "git push" and nothing else.

Or maybe his CS friends helped put it on github.

Or maybe he's just to piss us off :)

sometimes, especially when I'm trying to figure out something new, I like keeping the old exploratory code so I can grep through it or easily compare different approaches. It's less cognitive load than dealing with tags or branches or versions.

usually I end up with old/try1 old/try2 ... old/tryn

once I've worked out the way I really want to go, then I nuke old.

git checkout 0110deadbeef -- file.py > new_name_for_temp_file.py

What would you prefer he use, Dropbox?

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